Proposal: Adding a Plasma Login Manager

[Nicolas Fella]

Am 26.03.25 um 15:28 schrieb David Edmundson:
>> I'd lean towards merging them in one repo. Neither are useful on their own, are they?
> Only benefit is the ability to change the backend in the future
> without a messy git history.

I wouldn't worry too much about that since it's rather hypothetical.
Having two repos that are tightly coupled has been a headache in the
past (remember kwin and kwayland-server?).

So my suggestion would be to make one plasma-loginmanager repo

>> Then it probably makes sense to move the repo(s) to the plasma namespace.
> Yeah, will do once we know where we want them.
>
>> I'm a bit confused about "I also aim to incubate it into the KDE ecosystem to have full autonomy over the project and merging stuck patches.".
> What I was trying to say  was that we should host the backend part we
> need, and maybe cherry-pick some pending PRs from SDDM.
> I want to leave upstream SDDM alone so I don't actively break things
> others might be using.
>
> David
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